Please note, if you modified or created new slider themes, you should set up a slider themes folder outside the plugin folder to avoid having your modifications overwritten.
The process of moving the slider themes folder from within the plugin folder is described here: How to move slider themes folder.

3.1

New slider theme based on Nivo Slider script; combines the Nivo Slider script with the powerful plugin slider settings;

New meta panel on slider editing screen with links directing to different tutorials for plugin usage;

New option for theme Simple to adjust the height to each slide content while navigating slides (in panel Slider Output, tab Layout);

Solved a CSS bug for slider themes that wasn't applying styling to paragraphs.

3.0.4

Solved a bug that was preventing a redirect when saving plugin settings on some installations.

3.0.3

New option under plugin Settings that allow you to display slide settings on post/page edit;

Solved a display bug for sliders published above the loop that wasn't displayign correctly the pages where the slider is published in sliders admin table;

Solved a bug in WP versions prior to 4 that was preventing the editor from working correctly.

3.0.2

Solved a bug in slider script that was displaying only a part of the image;

Solved a bug in admin slide edit modal screen that wasn't removing the slide image when action was initiated;

Introduced a new option for theme Simple that controls if the bar timer should be displayed or not when autoslide is on.

3.0.1

Added new metabox in Slider edit page that displays the PHP code that can be used to display a slider directly into WP theme files;

Solved a bug related to manual slider placement by using the PHP code that was generating a PHP warning.

3.0

Complete plugin rewrite and internal functionality

Before updating, please make sure sure you have a back-up. While we don't expect anything to go wrong, it's better to be safe.
Please note, previous slider themes from version 2.5.4 are not compatible with Featured Articles 3.0.

2.5.4

Solves compatibility with qTranslate plugin (slide text not being translated).

2.5.3

New option to remove credits from sliders;

Credit image is self hosted;

HTTPS enabled;

Solves small bugs related to display tables in administration.

2.5.2

Solved issue in slider themes that was causing second slide to show for an instant when page was loading. Modified files: all display.php files in all slider themes.

2.5.1

Solved WordPress 3.5 error fatal error related to $wpdb->prepare()

2.5

Multibyte string support.

Image preloaders for featured images in slides.

Function to retrieve slider settings ( FA_get_option() ) can now take arrays as well as string as argument.

WP Touch PRO compatibility.

Template function ( the_fa_author() ) and options to display author name in sliders.

New option to link author name to author posts page.

Image resize in sliders to exact dimensions entered by user (uses default WordPress functionality; images will be cropped if bigger).

2.4.9.1

Solved bug that was causing remote images not to be displayed into the slider.

2.4.9

New options to hide title, text, date and read more link in slides when editing or creating a slider.

Re-designed automatic placement options in pages and categories.

WordPress editor button to easily place slider shortcode in post or page.

Solved bug that was displaying order of pages wrong when creating/editing a slider.

Images in sliders now have width and height set on them for increased overall page performance.

New template function to display the date in slides ( the_fa_date() ).

New template function that will hide any wrapping element if all other elements are hidden ( title, text, date ... ).

New option to allow all tags in slide description.

2.4.8

Compatibility with WPtouch plugin by verifying if WPtouch Restricted Mode option is on and preventing any sliders from displaying. A new option under Settings can also prevent any sliders from displaying in WPtouch mobile themes but if Restricted Mode is on, even if allowed from Featured Articles Lite, no sliders will display.

Compatibility with qTranslate plugin. No action needed to enable it.

2.4.7

Solves problem of post/page text and title not being replaced by custom ones specified in post/page editing.

2.4.6

Solves the problem of multiple sliders displayed into the same page that have same slider theme but different color schemes in settings.

2.4.5

Solved small bug related to linked slide titles target attribute value not being between double quotes.

2.4.4

Automatic placement enabled by default when installing/updating the plugin (previously set disabled and could be enabled from plugin Settings page).

WordPress 3.3 compatibility for gallery uploaded images with the new flash uploader.

2.4.3

Backwards compatibility for old Light and Dark themes. Current version merged these 2 themes into a single one called Classic that uses color scheme option to change between Light and Dark. If in FeaturedArticles 2.3 you were using the default Light and/or Dark themes, on update they will get deleted and no longer available. This update solves the problem by automatically assigning Light and Dark to Classic with the appropriate color scheme.

2.4.2

Repaired dead/wrong links from WordPress admin plugin pages.

2.4.1

Option to change the default slider themes folder from within the plugin contents to anywhere into wp_content folder. Option is available in plugin menu->Settings page.

Solved bug that was keeping dark color palette selected by default for all themes making Classic Light unavailable.

Solved bug that was removing the link that places custom featured image on posts/pages in WordPress gallery when search of filtering was performed.

2.4

Image attachment to slide is made using the default WordPress Media Gallery

2.3.7

Solved bug that caused automatic image detection within post content not to be performed because of plugin stripping HTML from post content. Please note that you need to do a small change if you display the slider with a custom theme made by you or others. In display.php inside your theme folder change

2.3.6

Solved shortcode bug that caused the slider not to be displayed into the exact place the shortcode was placed in post content (changes made in file: featured_articles.php)

Solved stylesheet issue not being loaded for developer link at the bottom of the slider (changes made in file: featured_articles.php)

2.3.5

Solved IE8 bug that caused autoslide not to start (error message: Message: 'currentKey' is null or not an object)

Solved issue with autoslide that wasn't correctly reset when navigation was clicked

Made links in article description have the same color as the text

2.3.4

Created shortcode support to display sliders inside post/page content.

2.3.3

Solved Allowed tags option bug that wasn't taken into account by the plugin when displaying posts in slider.

2.3.2

Solved z-index issue in themes causing side navigation not to be able to be clicked

2.3.1

Solved JavaScript bug that made only the first post clickable.

2.3

Slider script developed with jQuery (this solves the conflict between different JavaScript frameworks)

Creation/management and placement of multiple sliders into the same page or all over your blog

Widget support provided (go to Appearance->Widgets and look for FA Lite Slider)

Easy manual placement with code to be implemented provided for each slider created

Slightly modified themes to make it work with multiple sliders

2.2

User specified HTML tags allowed into featured post description displayed into the slider

Meta box to ease the way custom images and featured posts are inserted into the slider

Possibility to display posts or pages in random order into the slider

Featured articles slider resizable from administration area ( default values get specified into stylesheet )

Author link ( if you want to support the plugin ) that can be disabled from administration

Slider settings access is restricted to administrators only with the possibility to give access to any other group of users available in wordpress

Menu no longer available under Settings->Featured articles but directly in WordPress admin sidebar ( look for FA Lite )

Themes modified to support featured posts slider resizing ( both CSS files and display files have changed a little ). If you update the plugin and you made custom themes, back-up first your themes folder.

Custom post/pages images improved usage and interface

Easy setting for featured posts and pages to be displayed into the slider

Image detection improved even more. Currently there are 2 ways to set an image for a certain post: by setting the image as a custom field and second by detecting the image from post content. For images detected in post content, the plugin tries to identify the exact attachment from the database and if found, it automatically sets the image into the custom field. The only thing it needs is for the image to have the width and height attributes set in HTML.

New theme available (Smoke).

2.1

Date format in featured post short description displays according to blog date format option setting

Editable text for read more link

New option to set featured post title as link

Image detection no more made inside theme but done by function ( less code in slider theme )

New option to display the slider manually by adding a function to theme files ( function is FA_display_slider - see installation for instructions )